Trump downplays conflict, calls Iran war ‘small potatoes’
Sept. 4 (UPI) — President Donald Trump on Friday said the Iran war was “small potatoes” and “not a big thing.”
Trump was responding to questions about comments by Vice President J.D. Vance, who had said a day earlier that the conflict wasn’t a war.
“A lot of people don’t call it a war,” Trump told reporters. “I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us.
“It’s not a big thing. We did Venezuela, and we did this.”
Trump described the war as intermittent and a flare-up, USA Today reported.
Hours earlier, on his Truth Social platform, Trump explicitly called the conflict “the War in Iran.”
“The Radical Left Lunatics, Dumocrats, and Communists would rather have us LOSE the War in Iran, than have President Donald J. Trump WIN the War for America,” he wrote early Friday afternoon.
A day earlier, Vance told reporters there had been “no active shooting” and downplayed the severity of the war.
“I wouldn’t call it a war,” Vance told reporters at the White House.
Trump agreed with his vice president.
“I would say it’s a military conflict, if you want,” Trump said on Friday. “I don’t think it matters what you call it.
“What matters is the fact that we have had tremendous success.”